The Icelandic Sagas

The Icelandic Saga Database is an online resource dedicated to the digital publication of the Sagas of the Icelanders

http://sagadb.org/



The Icelandic sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries AD. They were most likely written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries AD, perhaps originating in an oral tradition of storytelling. While their facticity and authorship is for the most part unknown, they are a widely recognized gem of world literature thanks to their sparse, succinct prose style and balanced storytelling. The sagas focus largely on history, especially genealogical and family history, and reflect the struggles and conflicts that arose amongst the second and third generations of Norse settlers in medieval Iceland, which was in this time a remote, decentralised society with a rich legal tradition but no organized executive power.


Index of the Sagas

Below you will find links to all the major extant Icelandic sagas. All the sagas are available in Icelandic with modernised spelling, while many are available translated into English or other languages, indicated by the flags below the links. The "ON" flag indicates that the saga is available with the original Old Norse spelling.
By title

Bandamanna saga

Bárðar saga snæfellsáss

Bjarnar saga hítdælakappa

Brennu-Njáls saga

Droplaugarsona saga

Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar

Eiríks saga rauða

Eyrbyggja saga

Færeyinga saga

Finnboga saga ramma

Fljótsdæla saga

Flóamanna saga

Fóstbræðra saga

Gísla saga Súrssonar

Grænlendinga saga

Grettis saga

Gull-Þóris saga

Gunnars saga Keldugnúpsfífls

Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu

Hænsna-Þóris saga

Hallfreðar saga vandræðaskálds